On any screen my attention drifts
whether it’s girls online or the official denials
a reporter hunched in a bunker
or reading the accounts—I’m looking
Canberra Museum and Art Gallery
Civic Square, Canberra City
24 March to 17 June 2018. (Free)
O Canberra. Home for more than a third of my life, loved, hated, derided, company town. Continue reading
until 10 September 2017
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
free (yes really)
This major exhibition surveys the contemporary practice of 30 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, responding to the 50th Anniversary of the 1967 Referendum (1). The curator Tina Baum has done a fantastic job to bring together both emerging and more established artists from around Australia. Continue reading
Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prize, 2017
Art Gallery of NSW – $18 adult, $16 concession, $14 members
29 Jul – 22 Oct 2017 and then to regional centres.
Now in its 96th year, the $100,000 Archibald Prize for the ‘best’ portrait painting has been settled. Continue reading
Peter Frankis writes 